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Well, fired up my elite last night and got the rrod :( Apparently since it's been over 3 years since I purchased it, the extended RROD warranty no longer applies either, so $99 to fix it.

Does the error affect hard drives at all? If I decide to just buy a replacement, can I just pop the 120gb hd off it and stick it on any new xbox - elite or otherwise?

I'm leaning towards a repair vice replacement, but any tips/suggestions appreciated.

thanks.

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Same here :(

BTW, anyone else still doing the bing search everyday?

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Okay, remember when I posted a few weeks back how it was strange that ESPN on the 360 never showed any commercials during the breaks? Well now I would like to shoot myself because today they are showing commercials. As a matter of fact, the same two commercials over and over and over again.

Fucking football AT&T commercial and the man falling on the car Allstate commercial back to back or even twice in a row EVERY FUCKING COMMERCIAL BREAK. I'm having to mute the goddamn TV every time the fucking game goes to break. First during the Georgia game and now they are doing the exact same thing in the South Carolina game. I miss the quiet "your program will return" message now.

Ugh. :suicide:

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I could go either way. Some commercials would actually be nice compared to staring at a static screen for 3 minutes. On the other hand the silence is nice too. :lol:

And yeah, still doing Bing. Cashed in for about 1600 so far. Saw on the point page that there is a 3000 MS point limit. :( I guess switching over to Amazon would work.

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Yeah, I was bitching about this yesterday too. For me it was eventually the Allstate Mayhem commercial FOUR times in a row, every commercial break.

I turned on the stream on my laptop to see how it was different. Not only was the Internet stream like 1-2 minutes ahead of the Xbox stream, it didn't suffer from that commercial issue. It's like the xbox version only gets access to a few commercials or they have some sort of cache that got filled up improperly.

Either way, I think I'm going to forget ESPN on the xbox and just use the laptop for several reasons:

1) Less annoying
2) Can split-screen the simultaneous games
3) More real-time
4) I can play games on the xbox too

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Yes you can slap your hard drive on any other xbox that is of the same form factor. Not sure you can buy a "new" one that will fit your hard drive since the "new" xboxes have changed styles and the hard drives are internal now.

I think you'd be buying a used "old" xbox to use that hard drive.

While your money would be better used in upgrading the hardware, I'm not sure what options you have to migrating the data off the old hard drive. For example, I'm not sure if the hard drive migration kit works on old-style hard drive -> new-style hard drive with a new xbox in the mix. I *should* but I can't guarantee.

Another option would be going to a friend's house and manually moving all the volatile data (saves, profiles) off onto a usb drive and then moving them back later.

Just some ideas off the top of my head.

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What's the Bing search?

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If only there was a search engine capable of giving an answer to that question. :lol:

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I know that Bing is a search engine.

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I never even signed up, but thanks for reminding me. I started today. It may take a while to get 400 hundred points, but, hey, it's essentially a few "free" Rock Band songs that I can eventually cross off my ever-growing wishlist.

https://ssl.bing.com/rewards/signup/SEGetStarted

sign up and download Bing toolbar for IE --> search for stuff, take surveys, etc. --> earn Bing points --> redeem Bing points for Xbox Live points

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Xbox Live Deal of the Week:


January 3rd, 2011: "Avatar Dress Up" GOLD MEMBERS ONLY

• Band Hero Mic w/Stand (Prop) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Black Tuxedo (Male) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Bunny Outfit (Male/Female) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Doctor Outfit (Male/Female) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Flamenco Dress (Female) - 80 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Kilt (Male) - 80 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• Police Officer #2 (Male/Female) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
• The Executioner Outfit - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Male/Female) - 240 Microsoft Points - 40% off
• Wedding Dress (Female) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off

Perhaps the lamest Deal O' The Week ever, but hey, it got me a doctor's outfit for $1.50, so I'm not complaining.

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Yeah..I was able to re-earn them by playing again. They would always pop, they just wouldn't track. So one of them I got 3 times before it actually stuck to my Gamerscore and profile. I had my Gamertag stored on my MU and it officially became too large for the card. I think that may have been the source of the issue.

Dumb Question: Were those daily Holiday deals Gold only?

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Not a dumb question. I think they were good for everyone.

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Good. Those are the only sales I'm really interested in and I'm letting my Gold expire in a few months.

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I guess I'm not as hardcore anti-paying-for-avatar-clothes as I thought because I'd probably get that kilt for $1. But I don't have a Gold membership. Such is life.

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I understand. That kilt is the closest Microsoft will allow to cross-dressing with a male avatar.

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Sometimes I just like to feel pretty.

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Using this Facebook link, you can watch Microsoft's CES keynote address at 9:30 e/ 6:30 p tonight.

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I went to play some Dead Space last night, and was greeted with a fucking loud drive. So I installed it, here's the video of how it sounds. Awesome.

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Are you having it occur with other games too or just Dead Space? I recently had this issue with Splatterhouse where for some reason that disc sounded like it was eating it's way out of the machine. Especially when I just went ahead and installed it for that very reason. I haven't however had it happen with anything since then. So is it possible it's limited to something with that disc?

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Kinectamils was kinda loud, Splatterhouse was a little better.

But another thing that's awesome, is that when I press the eject button it opens the drive. then automatically closes itself 10 seconds later.

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I'm just going to assume it's all karma for playing Kinectimals. And as such, you deserve it.

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My nephew was playing it. I have yet to even choose which cuddly little feline I want to bond with :(

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Is it possible it unleashed actual animals in your slim?